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David Suissa
How to criticize Israel
If you love Israel, how do you criticize the country in a way that’s fair and loving?
Yitzi’s light
I needed some good ideas for a talk I was preparing on the parsha of the week, so I asked my friend Yitzi Hurwitz if he had anything.
Can Jewish donors repair our community?
There was plenty of sophisticated thinking that infused the annual Jewish Funders Network (JFN) Conference, which I attended this past weekend in San Diego.
My dinner with Ted Cruz
Does Ted Cruz have a shot at replacing Barack Obama as leader of the free world in January 2017? I think so.
Getting the story at AIPAC: The forgotten 56 million
So much of life depends on who you bump into. I bumped into a lot of people at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, a gathering of 18,000 highly caffeinated Jews in Washington, D.C., where the sport of choice is the handing out of business cards within 15 seconds of meeting someone, and the subjects of choice are politics, Israel and, this year, Donald Trump.
Are we still allowed to cheer?
There’s a new sin in town – it’s not heckling or insulting or bullying.
Europe should hire Israel, not condemn it
Do you know what European honchos were doing in Geneva recently even as the Islamic State was planning another terror attack on their continent? They were preparing yet another condemnation of Israel, this time with an ironic twist.
AIPAC turns Trump into politician
How powerful is AIPAC? It did what no one else in America has come close to doing: It tamed the wild verbal beast of Trump.
Why Trump makes us all dizzy
There’s no better feeling in the world than being 100 percent right about something. In a slippery world where everything seems to be debatable — even climate change! — it’s so refreshing to find something that is not debatable, something truly black and white.
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